Saturday Matinee: Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs
History Daily17 Touko 2025

Saturday Matinee: Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs

On today’s Saturday Matinee, we batten down the hatches aboard the Princess Sophia- the doomed Canadian steamship that got caught up in a severe snowstorm and became the worst maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.



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